Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 4

1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: JANUARY 22, 1877.—Eight Pages. THEDAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER. Eprror ax» PrOPRIETOR W00 X0T desire any contributions whatever Wof a literary or poeticai charactor; and we will not undertake to preserve, or to re- serve the same, in any case whatever. Our Staff is sufficiently large to more than sup- ply our limited space in that direction. POLITICAL. AXNOUNCEMENTS of candidates for office— whother made by zelf or friends, and whether as notices or communications to the Editor, are (until nominations are made simply personal, and will be charged as advertisements. Our CousTry Frievps we will always ‘be pleased to hear from, on all matters con- mected with crop . country politics. and ou any subject wha eit to the Jeeple of « mation connecte th relating to floods, accident , ete., will be sladly received, All such commun'cations bowever, must be brief as possible; and they must, in all cases be written upon one side of the sheet only. All Communirations should be a‘dressed to E. ROSEW A’ Editor and Publisher. rSute. Any infor- the election, and A GOooD eountry for sour grapes— “Pembina.” — THE Herald 1s «till d»rz—| Herald. And his firat name 1s Miller —— for the under Ex- ATOR GWVER has, we un- derstand, consented in the interest of harmony and ‘“regulars” to shage hands with Senator Saunders. THe Senatorial eontest in Tllinois promises to be protracted. The in- dications pow point to & com promise Republican candidate. MiLLER bas, on sions been forcad to swallow crow, but this time his digestive organs appesr to revolt against that diet. — ANDYEW JOHNSON'S suscessors, BSenator Keyes, has been defeated | for re election to the United States Benate by the Tennesseo Legizla ture. —— SE-A10R AMBR SE is d scenso- Iate. The champion aerobat of Ne- b aska wants it distinetly under- | stood that he never wanted {o see | bim on any previous oceasion and | does noi want to see bim vow. - — O1p Subsidy Pomeroy is making another desperate effo:. ‘or ths Kansas Senatorship, but i’ w= can Jjudge the temper of Kansas Repub licans there is no dispoesit dorse the old corrup' sniat —_—— A communicstion favoring repeal of the usury law the , which ap- pears elsewers, does not meet our | views on that question. Comments | on this subject are however defe:red for the want of time and space. THE WEsEIY Bre Las now reached = circulation of 38,820, and still new subscribers are coming in. It is the firsl journe! in Nebrasks that has attained a subscription list | to exeead 2,000 1t will now soon reach four and be advancing to ward its fifth thousand. —_— THerA s balm in Gilead. The Nebraska City Press seeks (o draw consolation for its political wounds by pointing to the fact that its Lin- coln correspondent predicted the election of overnor Baunders. That is just what General Van Wyck thought when he cast bis first vote for United Sta‘es Senator THE Herald does great injustice to the Chairmsan of the Senate com- mittea on buildings, by charging him with deserting th -~ late lament- ed “in abody.” ‘lom. has many sins to answer for, but this was not one of them. He came over only after he saw the cause was loat, and in the language of the immortal Shakespeare, “Poor Tom’z eold.” ——— BENATOR3 Paddock and Saunders little realized during the territorial existence of Nebraska, that the then Governor and Secretary would ata future period be sgain brought together by the mssterious changes of time, as the most honored repre- sentatives of a populous and grow- ing State. It is worthy of note that during all = these long years these gentlemen have been strong ans fastidious friends, both have secured their positions by the unpurchased vote of Nebraska's legislators and both at the time of their election were untrammelea by auy promises of appoiutments. In speaking of this we wish to cor- rect an error made by our corres- pondent Gabe, wherein he unin- tentionally did injustice to Senator Paddock by an allusion which would imply that no senstor had heretofore been elected without im- proper influences. The p2ople of Nebraska are to be er of general inter- | various ocea- | | their judicial capacity, we have no | | court of arbitration, the final ver- | THE PROPOSED COMPROMI &, The proposed plan for the settle- ment of the Presidential muddle does uot meet cur apprpval. It is <t hest & very unconstitutional ex- redient to remedy a defect in the federal constituti n. A more satis- factory and tully as ssfe a way out of the difficuity would be to allow Hayes and Ti den to throw dice for the Presidency. It is proposed to coastitute a board for the decision of disputed ques- tions, to be composed aa follows: 1 Five members of the Senate. The:e of course will be Republi- cans, 2. Five members of the House. | These of course will be D:mo- | orats. 3. Five members of (he Sujreme Court, to be choscn in the following manger, vii: Four of them select ed by the committee, and eompris- | ing two Democ ats aud two Repub- | i vs, the fifth to be ehosen by the | otber four. | Up tothechoiceof the fifth Judge | | we have a board or boards compos- ed of saven Republicans and seven Demoerats. Now, the question is, how shail the odd Judge be selected and what snall be lns politieal faith? The two Rapublican Judges | f will probably suggest a Republican brother to fill the vasancy. The two Democratic Juages will suggast a Demoerat. Neithe: —ill be like- iy to yield rea ily, for on :he choice of this fiith Judgs, in all probabili- | ty, will degend the whole guestion of the Presidency. And now we reach the knothy problem, bow shall tue choice be made ? Shall it bs made by place- g the names of the rema ning Sipreme Judges in a hat, shaking | them up and drawing for the re- maining member. If 80, you might | just as well omit the entire batch of | Benators, Representatives and Judges and simply put the names of the nine Bupreme Judges in the hat, and draw oue name to decide [ the Presidency ; or Qetter still Iike | Tilden and Huyes, decide by tossing | coppers for the piizs. To assume that this political predelictions of the Supreme Judges will have no | bearing ou their verdict is vertuaily to contradict the conclusions | of the conference ecomumittee, that drafted the bili for the proposed | | compromise They propose to create | & Liigh coart of arbiiration made up Republicans and seven | Democrats, leaving the casting vote | | to & person whose selection is to be | determined by chance. No mat- | | ter how much confideuce the Bu- | |preme Court may inspire as = court sitting judioally upon a qiestion brought before them in of sevan more ¢ontidence in them as politi- cians, sitting in judgment as such, han we have iu any other eminent men chosen or tbe Benale Chamber. No matter | what formalities are to be observed J in organizing the propesed hizh | say from the Cabinet dict must necessarily depend upon the ebancs of the judge wbo bas the | casting vote. It strikes us that it would be more in coneonance with the spint it not ! with the letter of the national co stitution to allow the President of the Benate to cowut the electoral | vote, and if the Supreme judges are ] to bave anything to ao with| this great problem let them act as x | court and not as a political returning poard, i THE BEE extends 1ts thanks for the numerous congratulations which | have besn sent to us in the past few i days upon its final suceass in the | six years’ campaign. We reeret that want of time, from neglected work of the past {wo weeks, pre- cludes personal response to all of them. —— — —— THERE was some very tall, as well as sone very short swearing at Lincolu in the investigation of that horrible case of ‘“forgery.” Why not send for Mr. C. E. Perkins, snd | let him take a sweur at hisown sign manual, and several other mat- ters.— Herald. Mr. Perkins will come of his own accord, and bis testimeny will effec- tually silence the malignant eating house acrobat whose endorsement gan strikingly exhibits his true | charac’er. A Vietory of Reform. Chicago Tribune 19. Ex-Gev. Alvin Baunders, the last Governor of the Territory of Ne- | braska, was yesterday chosen by the Legislature to represeat that Stase SPANK, SPANK, SPAYK. rning till night, frem early day- From gr'&:.cmm:- her knos, apanl *fhurts, " bellowed There’s i But doy w supposs That th> fair creature ka That the theught has onee even That ers loog she’ll be playing & mether’s _ead part. With her pr close to h-art. And ?’ -l{iper careering above® his bare The Chaplain of the Colorado State Senate is 4 negro, Rev. B F. Watson, of tte Methoaist Episco- pal Cburch. The Baptista have made rapit progress in fi ting up their summer campaign plan on Point Chau- tauqua, Chautaugua Lake. The widow Van Cott has been preaching in the Thirtieth sfrest Methodist Church, New York, which has been crow from en- trance to chaucel-rail with attentive eongregations. Rev. H. A. Buchtel, a retarned misiionary, mow staiioned at Knight= town, [ndiana, writea thatthey are in the midst of & great revival, hay ing as many as 240 inquiries at & single m=eting The Pope has sent a letter te a German prelate, warning the Cath- clic clergy s~ainst the acceptance of the in‘a'litility dogm= from any other cause s ve as & bellof in it as a Divine decree. A writer in the Irish Chureh Ad- vecate siates thut «t the recent opsn- ingoi a ehapel in Eugland, scven Baptist minisiers were precent who had been clergymen of the Estab- lished Church | Rev. Jawes Presley, D. D., who was formerly well-known in the Unitnd Presbyterian Chureh, has | declined. it is said, an invitation to the First Presbyterian church, New- | ark, Ohio, aud returned to his home nesr Pittsburg, Penn | and Canada to be twenty two Stats ¢ nventions, represented in one gen- eral convention; 69 sssociations, 880 parishes, wi'h 41,029 families; 656 cburch organisations, with 39,947 members; 641 Sunday schoels, hav- | ing 59,463 teachers and scholars; 758 church eaifices, worth, above all indebtedness, $7,465,495. At the Broadway Congregational Tabernacle, New York the psws are onlv rented, the prices ranging from $35 to $325 & year. There are | 800 pews, which afford mttings for 1,850 peop'e. The income derived from the rents in a year ameunt to £37 000. Qut of this sum the Rev Dr. Taylor receives $14 000, and $1 250 is paid ror bis life insuranee The church is said to be out of debt, and there is a surplus every year of from $4 000 to $8,000. ‘I'he Indian Home Mission to the nthala reports 118 adults baptised Iast vear, and the whole number of 2123 pre ent communicants It has been decided to ordain two of the Santbals to be miseionaries ‘among their countrymen, and to have pastoral chaige of some of the churches; thirty men aud two women have been selected to act as traveling Elders, and to engage | in home-to bome visitation. Three Santhal reading books have been published, wnd odrer works a e in manugcript. Rev. Dr. Twing, inreply toan open letter from Bishop Hunting- ton, say# that an average ot five cents a week from the 180,000 com- muricants, and trom the same num bar ofnon-communicants, including children, making s totol of 560,000 persons, would pive au ngeregate of $1,456 000, which wmight be distribu- ted as follows: Domestic Mi-sions, 300,000 per annumn; Foreign Mis- sions, 800,000; Home Missions io Colored People, 461,000; Indian Mis- sions, 100,0¢0; education of young men for the miniatry, 100,0:0; age.! and infirm clergy and widows and orphans of deceased clergymen, end 36,000; work among the Jews; 10,- 000; work ameng the Germans and =candinavians, 10,000; work in Mexico, 20,600; Bible and Prayer book Boeiety, 20,000; Church publi- eation, 20 000; an average 10,000 to each of forty-one dioceses, 440,000. MISCELLANEOUS. Ten pictures from the Johnston eoile:tion have been presented to the Bostom Art Museum The attempt to cultivate the Eu- calyptus tree in the yard of the Un- ited Statas Court House, at Charles- PUNGENTISTIC. The early worm gets caught. Gold is not yet se low that peeple refuse to take it The dentist who was in a tight place managed to pull out. 1t a prisoner eannot be bailed out, let some interviewer pump him out. Tex¥as hotel keepers wish every wind would bring them a North- eruer Do mot take it to heart if a patent medicine man asks you how your liveris Ole Bull is not partial to the mus- ie of Wagner. It is too much for one flidle. There ars so many eouris that the tailors do uot know where to bring their suits. When whisky is down to sixty celits corner store merchants natur- ally get iow spirited. An Ihnows girl vlayed Logan’s photograph for the jagk of spades, 2nd said, “He's a trump Tne korse that has spe~d and bot- tom is the animal on which & man should bet his bettom doilar. They do not know exac.ly how te diapose of the Vanderbilt property ; but where there's a will there’sa way. ¥ Ths arrival of a short man in & Waestern town 1s mentioned in th papers under the head of ‘‘personal brevities. A ¢hild sat down on a hot stove hearth im Pitisburgh, and was per- mauently branded with the words, “Base Burper " Vanderbilt’s great motto was, “Mind your own business’” If sverybedy would do that they might become milliomaires. The world goes on weil enough without Commodore Vanderbilt. There is no man living whose place can noi be readily filled. Extes says the cremation chaps have been muking incinerating re- Palm, and they must be stopped. A little boy in Btockton, Cal., stuck & red hot poker into the bung- hole of a keg thatcontsined a pound of gunpowder The result was all that Le could have expected. A Broad way india-rubber firm cently telegraphed to St. L uis, ¢Arcticshoes, 8t. Louis siss, are net built in this eity. But we can sand marks on his friend, Baren von | rom, but later a compauy of eapl- talists were told that Mud Springs, O 2gon, was the place that yeleled such richness. These men were cautious and would not invest any money before an investigation They sent seme of the mud to Pro- fersor Siliiman of Yale College, who informed them that the silver had been adaed by human agency, and evidently paswsed through a quariz mill. The autbors of the traud are to bs prosecuted. The people of Los Angeles took & very unique method of preventing a threatented influx of Chinese la- bors. A parly of six hundred ar- rived there a few days ago and eamped near the new depot. 'Che citizens immediately started a re- port that the peculianty of the clim- ate causes the nose to grow toa formidable leng h, and that the In- dians invarably ssige Chinamen by their elongated appendages and wring their heads ofl. A few min- utes before the time for the depart- ure of the traiu for [udian Wells the | Chinese sezed their baggage, dash- ed it from the cars. and stampeded over hilis and out of sight, | The census of Puris 1s looked for- ward to much intefest In 1700 the populat'on numberzd 720 00) inha. bitants Toward e'ghteenth century it had dimin- ished to 620,000, and continued to | decrease until 1801, when it num- bered 546.000 From that time it | bas steadily risen. In 1831 it was 774 338, in 1836 970 156 Twenty years later it reached 1,538 613 In 1860 the annexation of all the dis- tricts comprised between the old Octro1 boundary and the fortifica- tions had the effect of swelling the numbers to 1,700 060 and to 1 825 000 in 1866 These additions nearly | doubled the area of the czpital. In | 1872 the population showed s slight ing 1,851,702, against 1,000,000 in tike later year. There are six universities in Rus- sia, two in Bt Petersburg, and one each in Moscow, K- ssan, Odesea, and Kharkoff. 1In 1866 there were in ail of them 3,591 students. In 1871 the number had increased to 5,801, but n 1876 it had diminished again to 4,492 | students have no resources ot their | own, and are obliged to Zive lessons | tosapport themselvee, many of them eepe: cal students, are said miserable condition. From 1870 | to 1873 while 3,224 atudents finished | their course of studies. 2,911 were ly the medi- to be ina the end of the | falling off compared with 1870, ba- | As a rule Rusaian | At Moscow, | The Moody and Bankey 1dea of | own, 8. ., has fa'led in conse- preacher and singer collaborstine is | quence of the recent frosts compelied to ‘desist without taking | beir degrees Several seholarships, of the amount of from $100 to $260 you a model of the Great Eastern.” Tse Boston Transeript says thar | HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The neble red man is the pull- baek on the outskirts of ervilisatien. Mr. Hiil Keith, of Lake Forest, N. C . baving lost his wife Iast year, was married to her mother on Christmas day. Hvery onece in a while some scientist rises and says that the moon is dead. This scientitie fact 18 what makes young loverson & frosty nigh* linger at the gate and look up at the corpse. A Louisniaua paper wants to know what & New York citizen would think if he saw in New Orleans the most beautiful girls in the world? Prebably he would think of—in New Orleans—more laases. It reeslls what Dundreary said about 1t: ¢Yaas, she was a nice girl. T was g zoing to mary her m-myself, but I d-dids’t get up that m-morning, or =ometing of th-that sort; I d-don’t w-waeollect now ju- Juth what it wath.” A man Jn Cincinnati owned a pet panther. Hs wentoffrecently with his wife and family for a visit of a couple of days, leaving the pet pan- ther and his mother in law to keep bouse. On bis return his griet can | be imagined on discovery that it was the panthier that was dead, not the mother-in-law. The old lady had talked the poor animal te death. —_— ! PICUS SMILES. s A fashionable London preacher recently szid: ¢ 8t. Paul remarks, | aud I partially agres with him 2 An sged Pailadel~hian 13 so de- | vout that he often drops on his knees on the strests and loudly | prays for those whose sinfulness he | witnesses There are 43,000 clergymen 1n the United Btates; but even th s num- | ber have not succeeded in working the morals of the community up te ihat point where ail will pay ona crowded horse car. | _On a panel in a ehurch wall in | Valparaigo, Chili, is a painting rep- resenting the emperor of Germany and Princs Biemarck squirming in | the lames of hell, while the aevil | is poking the imperial chancellor in the back with ared-hot fork. | Leonzard Harper Johnson, of Vir- | ginis, has devised a new religion. Its leading ideas sre that Johnson | is tchava one-tenth of the money | of his follswers aind as many wives | a8 ha can get. Thus far he has ob- d more wives than money. e believing 0 man who hides a mean m his eocmpauions, but who Th: getting into the regular ok The Clark Street Methodis! ¢ in Chicago Rav. M. ™ burat to preacti and Rev. Spen ter to sing the Gospe The Lexington Methodist Coner- ence (colored) will meet at Mays. | | ville, Kentucky, March 4th, 1877, | bounty This | its limits all of Ken-|ly & good one, or rathe- a bad year Bishop Bowmau pre conference embraces ding. | tucky and parts each of Ohio and Mr. Coxwell, the eminent Eng- lish aerouzut, endorses the opinion that the North Pcle may bereached vy bailoons under favorable circum- | stunees and during comparatively | mild weatin The State of Maine says a $5 for every bear killed within Liast y~sr was apparent- | bount 549 were Kkilled, cost- for bear: Indiana, and is doing & good work | ing the State $2.475 for Methodism among the colored psople. { tion on December 25 At Marsbhal MacMahou's recep Jules Simon waa a guest, and presented his wite. There wasalso & aumber of Senators and Deputies of ths Left who were The Unitarian minis are ma turing a pian ‘or the bolding of min- | Mesars. Graves and L | precedented, T | Scores of the young and some of | the bishops. of forgers and perjuers like Flans- | advocate of the Roman Catholic re- | isters’ institutes, to meet bisunially, | but in the years when the National | i‘onlerence does not meet ‘lhey | wiil last each on= week, and will be | d to lactu es in spscial de-‘ artment . The first will be held | in Beptomber next. ! | Rev. B. W Parker. who wsnt | out from Nsw London, Cenneeti. | cut, forty four yesrs ago, to the Bandvwic’: 1sianda, on a whale ship is pow visiting Lis home for the | first time. Seventy thou and per- | sons have been receivei he | charch in the Islinds since tue first | inte present at iha Marshal's residencs fo° the first time. Gen Ch=nzy, commanding in Aliers, has interdicted the admis. sion in thst ecuntry o the Djaoura and all ot Constantinopis news. papers, which are stimulating Mus- sulmans into the so calied “‘holy war” with Russia. In the coal sha'e at Bwitzeriaud, a series of poles, covered wi'h wi nave been found They are sup- posed to te the most ancient evi- dences yot kuowu of the existence f man, and belonging to the pariod 0l u i report. for | 36 vening befween the two g'acial 1676, 4,078 cburei cs. in tucrense of | g iis 58 123 smber an <00’ ; 3 g"&,-_ 1oa :;”',"i[.,r: R ::s:gv" This 18 she way the Ashtaba'a 3 Diiing e vesr, $629 9 were | disaster sppeared in Paris: New L U York, Decembss 8) —Last night his sum | t of the! has an offi § ministers. 9 296 were [or the su) This ! cial publishiug hoeuse at Dayion, O | revivel meetince eatine, Iowa, are sp all its currounding the | influenee of this wonderful work. the most prominent and wealthy cit- | izens are the suhjec's of thisremark- | able revival The ‘‘Association Dominicale ’ a new French Rexan Catholic so- ciety for the promotior of a better observance of the Babbath, is re- ported to be making great progress | in F snce ucder the patr nsge of The miotto of the As- sociation is & saying of the present | Pope: ‘‘France will only be saved by a return to the ssnctification of the Sunday.” Rev. Dr. Riley, Protestant mis- sionary, says that the assumption of the prasidency by General Porfirio | Diaz will ot harm prote-tant - | terests in Mexico. General Diaz ' represents the liberal iuterests of | the republican party, and is not a gime The Episcopalizns, at least, receive encouragement frem the government. The sdoravian Year Book for 1877 reports 13 bishops in different parts | of the world, and 97,362 membars. Of this total 67,413 are to be feund iu the missions. The terrifor cupled by the *‘bretheru” is divided into three prorinces — German, | British and American. The Ger- in the Uaited Ntates Senate for tee ensulng six years from the 4th ot March next. for re-election, organised suppor, but ke was weighed down with the salary grab The present Senator, | bers, the British 5673, aund th Mr. Hiteheoek, was a candidate | American 13,788, and had an| mau provinee comiains 7,749 mem | 'The Reiormed Church of the Un- ited States, popularly known as the congratulated therefore upon having | reaord, end was al=o regarded with | German reformed . reports for 1576 in the national senate two repre- | disfsvor on account of an overpius | 00¢ General Synod, six District sentativis who will co-operate for | the weliure of tieir constitusacy, | and who thoroughly uaderstand | the wants of the State, having| both advanced with its growth from | its territorial infancy to its present prosperous and p-ospectiye condi- ‘inu of devotior interes's, and not sli the power of patronage ard the poteney of the machine could force him upon the nnwilling Republicans, whose num bers were sufficient to control the | srtustion and at the Iast secure the election in Gov, | otlier and a better represeatative of } thie reform element of that party. aunders of an- ' to the Pacific Railroad | YR8, forty-five clssies, 664 min- ! isters, 1.333 congreg itions and 141, | 692 members. The contribniions to benevolent objects were $71 988; | the contributions to loc objaotx, 1 $83.193. The number of students prepariug for the miistry is 182 The Universalist Register ior | 1877 reporis the statist:es of the de- | nomination for the United States he express irain on the Pacific rail- | vtoad was stopped by a considerable eollection of spow on the woo r!dge near Ash Sabula, nsar Salt Lake, The train, preceded by iis ! suow plow, backed some hundreds | of metres, thien started under a fmll | head 0° steam to try and force a passage. The bridge broke under the strain, and the train fell inlo the river from a height of 75 feet. It is believed that 100 passengers were killed, and about 52 wounded. A Dbelief in eolor-poisoning by means of green dresses and green | wali papers has already been forced upon ike public by some tclerably conclusive evidence; but it seems that the mischevions propensities of this color are far from being yet ex- posea. A Freuch savant, Mr. Paul -Bert, bas just exhibited agsinst it articles of impeachment of the gravest character, supported by re- yoris of a whole seriss of startling experiments. If bis theory is trne, it is nont only the ar:enic used in preducing the color which does the injury, but the ac.ual color itself; and a mere ray of green light is ca- pable of affecting the health of the person exposed to 1t. apart from all axd afforded to it by the smeil or presence of arsenic To demon- strate this alleged fa t, M. Bert has submitted ssveral specimeus of the sensitive plant to rays ot different colors thrown upon :hem through siaiued glass, and iu every case tizose which were trea‘ed fo the most briliisnt green light with- ered and died in the short- est time. In those plants which ware exposed (o & red light a pe- ouliar phenomenon was observed ; the tips or spikes of the leaves pro onged tnem-sives and grew for- ward in 2 iean hungry fashion horizontally with the brsveb from whichi th y sprang; while in a blue light tie contrary efle:t was pro duced, the spikes sl g out abe pily aud perpendi from O one ¢ ity being elosed ju » sort of fanisrn having red gla“s on one green ou 1ne otuer, instead of slirinking away from the poison on their right to the roseate antido’e on their latt, the leaves, us if by 2 iatal tasciuation, turned with one consent the other way and literally looked death in the face. all trus musc is in the middle notes. We had remarked this fact when a member of the Philhar- monic Society found ten centsin & prper of tobaeco. Millicns of swailows weut south frem <ali ornia® #s usual Iast fall, and have just returned in mid-win- ter, whieh is very unusual. Did the political atmosphers down there disag) with them ? 1t is said that wsorge Washington shaved himself, and 1t is sublime to think of the father of hisconatryin his shirt slesves, with a towel en | his arm, iearing about the house for & piece of paper. Bescher ard Tilton rods together Centra! raitroad No other passen- gera were in the car, yet they did not avail themselvas of this first- class opportunity to fight a duel. The Farmer's Vindicator explains something by saying: “We ask our read~rs to exuse all shortcomings n this 1seue, a3 our foraman has been quite sick and none of the other hands understand it as well.” A little boy was very much exer- his father when te got to Heaveu bat his mother eased his mind by saying, “All you will have to do is | to look for an angel with & red | nose.” A Ban Francisco lawyer received & wooden jackass as a Christmast gift from his feliow practitioners in the Polies Court, aud he says: “I know how hard itis to pick out suiiable presents, butl simost think an inszlt was intended Aun eager young man rang the beil uat a Washington street house Sunday evening, daughter cams in with smiles to le him in, and just as sl opened th door, a small boy, all out of breath, reached the front gate and yelled: ¢Ho, Jim! Bill says as how you must comeright home. He saysas how ’taint your turnp to wear that store shir: this week, no how, ’cause you wore it Jast Sunday, and be says as how he’s got a 'pintment to go and see a girl over in E22t Rome, and zin’t he just hop- pin’ mad.” The young man on the door-stsp looked as though there was a pain in him somewhere.— [Rome Sentinel. CU#RENT TCPICS. A monument to the great Swedish naturalist, Linnsus, was unvailed in Btockholm yesierday, the 10'th anniversary of his death. Williata R Martin, of Pitisourg, asked a oompanion $o sing the revi val hymn, “The Sweet By end 8y,” and at the close of the first verse kilied himself with a pis:ol shot. | yearly, have been founded b, he | Government aud by private ify, but there nuraber is eti low the number o° students who buve no means of subsistence but miserable paid lessons. When a msnin New York has once taken a fine house he doesn’t like to leave it even if his incom begins to fall. It makes peopie t: and his position may be eff ted There died not long ago a gentle- | man, who up to his death, had been act fr has very litue respect for the invis- ible angels (hat see him. And yet the very man to brag on an- New York Graphic: It is easier | for & camel to go through the knee | o7 an idol than for & young man to go through a chureh fair without bemng compelled to buy tickets in the raffle ot seven pincushions =tuffed with brau | A tiraveler visiting a cathedral was showu by the sacristan, among othier marvels, a dirty epaque glass paying $10,00 " a year for his house | phial. Aftar eyeing it for some and eould leave nothing for his fa | (1me, the traveler said: ¢ Do you in a palace car eu tie New York | cised for fear he would not know | and the eldest | flush and didn’t give 1t up. In London, where rents are hizher then apywhe e except New York, no one has paid such a rent as this since Lord Palmerston, when Prime Minpister, paid the seme sum for Cambrige House in Pi y. He was childless, sighty, had an income | of £20 000 & years in real estats und | salary. and his wife ned upward of | £20,000 2 r more, London men | with £100,000 & year in the most sol.d securities are confent with | houses rented at £1,000 = yea~. The | London _rents of t'e two rizhest men it. B d did not amount to | $7,000. ir property was worth £80,000,000. A balieve in eolor- mesns of green dre: and green wall papers has already been forced upon the public by some tolaribly coneiuive evidenso; but it ssema that the mischisvous propsnsitiss of thia color are far f om being yet fully exnosed. A French savaut, M. Paul Bert. has ju-t exhibited szainst 1ts articles of impsachment of the gravest charecier, supported by reports of a whole serias of tartling experiments. If his theory s true, it is not on'y the sarsenic | used in producing tue color which | does the injury, but the 2otual color | itse:f; and & meore of grean light | 18 ezpable of affectiag the health of | the person exposea to 1t apari from | all sid afforded 1o it by the smsll or ‘ presenee of arsenic. To demonstrate | this alleged fsat, Mr. Bert bas sub- mitted several specime:s of the | sensitive plant to rays of diffsrent | colors thrown upoun them through | stained glass, and in every ca=e | thote which wers treated to the | moat briliiant gresn jight withered |and died in the shortest tims. In | those plauts which were exposed to | ared light a peculiar phenomenon | was observed ; the tips or spikes of | the leaves prolonged themselves |and grew forwari in a lean and | hungry fasbiou, horizontslly with | the branen from which they sprang; | while In a blue light the contrary effect was produced, the spikes | standing out abruptly and perpen- aientarly from their stera. On one | of the plants being inelosad in a sort | of lantern, having, red-glass on one «oning by mily. He took it when times were | eail this arelic? Why it is empty.” | *Empty.” retorted the sacistan, in- | dignantly. 8ir, it contains some of the darkvess that Moses spread jover the lard of Egypt " | When a man jumps out of bed as stle blows for quarter to 7, | 1ix e fire, carries in the coals, | dresses the childre 1, drews the wa- | ter, biacks his boots, shaves him- | self. eats his breakfsat, has family | worahip —when a man does all this {and then goes down on the eight | O’clock train, Le realizes the fact | that some things can be done as well as otbers, and that there is | pothing like living in the country | in the winter. Presbyterian minister (portent- ousiy): ¢“James, there is a very | dreadfu! thmng! You have heard | there is one pound mi=sing from | the pox!” James (tho besdie who is 8" suspected): “Deed, sir, | 8o they were telimn’ me.” Minister | (solemnly): “James, yon and I aloue had access to the box ”” James: | It’s just as yo say, sr; it muat lie | between u+ twa! Aun’ the best way’'ll be, you ‘o pay the oune-half, !an’ Ill pay the tither, au say na | mair about it " —[Punch. —— POLITICAL NOTES. Watterson would not have Cro- nin’s nose for $3,000. Aucustus Schell is the new boss of Tammany, vice Kelly. He hopes he Scheli be ac big 8 man as Tweed. Rev. E. E. Hale has & new story called “The Adventures ef a Pull- man Car.” 1t does not let Tilton iu. Kentucky ean raise a bigger neu- tral army than any other State. | watterson’s fi st draft is for 10,000 man. The debt ot New York city in- | ereased $3,000.000 during the last | yoar. The city is for Tilden and | reform. Ita whols debt is now $i19,811,310.39 | An exehange says, ‘Crocket, Texss, has a reading club and is se- riously talking of iocal option.” When Croskett is right it should go ahead. It is szid that before Senator Nor- | wood beeame a politician, he was s It 18 understood that the decision | side and green ou the other, instead | o0 ooiat in fact had 8 perfect of the Virglnis-Maryland boundary line Commissicners is against the rormer State, the-cilizens of which will thus lose the greater part of the valuable oyster beds in Pokomoke Nounde. The temperance promoters have Jjust beeu couvicted of a great blan- der in London. They had opened a E with the beat succeas at the Cape of pecple’s onffee rooms at low prices; | but a cursespondent who sallied heir utility & i ail the g places erywded and abiaze with comfort, | but the “People’s Cafes’ clived, at | 8:30 p. m. Thee made by tie 1aanrgers was tbat it did not “pay” to keep them open after workiug hours. Recently samples of mud ¢ ing siiver were sent to San Fran- ciseo. At first there was a prelence I of secrecy as to where the stuff came | of slinnking away from the poison inn the right to the roseate antidote | on their loft, the leaves, as if by s | fata! fascination, turned with one | consent the other way and iiterally ' looked death in the face. | Ostrich farming is carried on Good Hopa Choice birds are worth eaeh. They feed on grass like Usually they are tolerably decile, but at the breeding season they b= eome irritaole, aud wili often a! a person who ventures too them Eaeh bird yields from $150 to $200 worth of feathers per -year | Those from ‘he female are gray, near | cept a single white plume which grows under each wing, and whiel | is the most vaiuable of ail. passion for birds But he never | eould asserive & briek bat, even after | he became a politician. — Too Cold for Kissing. The 8t Josepi: Chronicie, of the 16th, forcibiy iilustrates the severity of yesterday’s cold snap in the fol- lowing interesting incident : Last night was no time for kissing in the open air. This is what a icrth on a fate terribla night to test | .qiiia, and require verv little cara, | chap says who tried it at a gate on | Tenth sireet, and had to thaw the lips of himsel? sud sweetheart 2part with & buruing match before being aole to s'art home Besides this, | he <ot both of his big toes frozen, | his left ear frosted, and will proba. | bly have to =ubstitute another nose ntain- | #nd those from the male biack, ex-| for the smeller that he was carrying ! around this morn The trutn of the matter is, he’sin a fesrful pligh*, and credi's it all to kissing.